A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the lynching of the Black teenager. The killing of Till became a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the brutal lynching of the Black teenager.
“We are using the available means at our disposal to try to achieve justice on behalf of the Till family,” Sterling's attorney Trent Walker told The Associated Press on Friday. Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized in 1955, but the Leflore County sheriff at the time told reporters that he did not want to “bother” the woman since she was raising two young children.
Now in her late 80s, Donham has lived in North Carolina in recent years. She has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution.
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